Odaily News – According to an official announcement from Kraken, Kraken Derivatives will delist 77 perpetual contracts at 12:00 UTC on October 1, involving assets such as 2Z, AEVO, AIXBT, AKT, ANKR, ARKM, AR, BLUR, CELO, ENJ, GMT, GMX, IOTA, MINA, NEO, THETA, VET, ZIL, and ZRX. Once trading in these contracts ceases, they will be settled and removed from the platform. Additionally, Kraken will delist perpetual contracts for SUN, MTL, IOST, and XVS on September 3, and for COTI on September 7.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Physical AI company Transfyr announced the completion of a $25 million seed funding round, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures, Factory, Neo, SV Angel, MVP Ventures, Underscore VC, Lyda Hill, and multiple angel investors. The company is dedicated to bridging the gap between the physical and digital realms, converting hands-on scientific operational data into machine-readable data to enable truly closed-loop systems driven by artificial intelligence and automation.

Odaily News: NeoSoul has announced the completion of an $11 million Pre-A funding round, with participation from MH Ventures, Amber Group, ArkStream Capital, 0G Foundation, Kirin Capital, CatcherVC, and New Oak International. The funds will be used to advance its intelligent agent trading products and AI economy infrastructure development.NeoSoul is an AI economy infrastructure project within the BNB Chain and 0G ecosystems. It recently launched NeoTrade, an intelligent agent trading workbench that allows traders to configure their own AI trading agents, which autonomously make and execute trading decisions.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated that AI is transitioning from information production to autonomous economic activity, and trading is one of the earliest scenarios capable of forming a complete economic闭环.

Odaily News AI voice-to-text startup Wispr Flow has completed a $280 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $2 billion, led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, and others. In November last year, Wispr Flow completed a $25 million Series A extension round at a valuation of $700 million. Following this round, the company's total cumulative funding has reached $361 million.Wispr Flow primarily provides AI voice dictation tools for writing and office scenarios. (Reuters)

Odaily News: AI voice interaction startup Wispr announced the completion of a $280 million Series B funding round, bringing the company's valuation to $2 billion. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC, MVP Ventures, as well as Acrew, Peak XV, Together Fund, and PLUS Capital. To date, the company's total funding has reached $361 million.Wispr plans to use the new funding to expand its R&D team, advance the development of its Advanced Interfaces Lab, and build more voice interaction products for software and hardware scenarios, positioning voice as the foundational layer for the next generation of human-computer interaction. (Pulse2)

Odaily News: Goldman Sachs has announced the acquisition of NEOS Investments. NEOS Investments is an ETF issuer managing $30 billion in assets, including the Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI), which manages $1.1 billion in assets.

Odaily News: Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas posted on X platform, stating that Goldman Sachs will hold BTCI in Neos trades. BTCI is a $1 billion Bitcoin premium income ETF with a 27% yield, capturing most but not all of Bitcoin's upside. He noted this explains why Goldman Sachs never launched its Bitcoin covered call options product filed months ago; rather than launching a similar product, it is better to surpass BlackRock's BITA.

Odaily News: Tokyo-listed company Eole purchased 1,078.2547 HYPE on July 28, totaling $66,000, with an average purchase price of $57.15. The company stated that this marks the first time a Japanese listed company has publicly disclosed a purchase of HYPE. Eole plans to increase its total HYPE investment to $611,100 through multiple purchases by the end of August, holding it as a strategic asset under its "Neo Crypto Bank" initiative alongside Bitcoin. HYPE is the native token of Hyperliquid, a blockchain network focused on on-chain derivatives and trading. Eole stated that holding HYPE is not solely for capital gains or treasury management, but rather to strengthen its on-chain finance and Web3 operations. The company may generate income through lending digital assets and hedging price risk via traditional financial markets, while also exploring ways to connect its holdings with its own services.

1. Ansem: This crypto cycle may see the largest retail participation in history, with infrastructure and narratives already in place;2. Coinbase CEO clarifies controversy: Will not endorse Meme coins or projects, supports long-term development of Base;3. Polymarket reportedly had approximately $200 million in bets with suspected insider trading characteristics within six months;4. Dragonfly partner: Meme coin trading is predominantly retail-driven and should not exhibit the weekend low-volume patterns of professional trading markets;5. Strategy did not purchase Bitcoin last week, with its USD reserves increasing by $225 million;6. Bitmine added 7,430 ETH last week, with its Ethereum staking exceeding 4.917 million ETH;7. Tom Lee responds to slowdown in ETH buying pace: Due to large-scale stock buybacks, the purchasing rhythm remains unchanged;8. Strategy's Bitcoin holdings now show an unrealized loss of $9.05 billion, while Bitmine's Ethereum holdings show an unrealized loss of $8.643 billion;9. Whale "First Set 10 Big Goals" turns bullish on Bitcoin, bearish on AI and US stocks;10. South Korea's credit card industry stablecoin joint test is set to end in late July, with card companies shifting to differentiated competition;11. AI security startup Neo completes $100 million funding round, led by a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners;12. AI infrastructure startup Infinity completes $15 million funding round, with participation from Touring Capital and others.

Odaily AI security startup Neo announced the completion of a $100 million funding round, led by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. It is reported that the company positions itself as an "Agentic Software Control" company, dedicated to building a real-time control layer for enterprises to help security operations teams (SecOps) manage and protect the rapidly proliferating intelligence capabilities of AI Agents, AI applications, browsers, identity systems, and traditional software. The new funds will be used to expand engineering and marketing teams and accelerate enterprise customer acquisition. (Globenewswire)